By Brian Barrett, Wired.com, October 10, 2016
THE GALAXY NOTE 7, Samsung’s flagship smartphone, reached customers on August 19. Within two weeks, 35 of the devices had either caught fire or blown up outright, prompting a voluntary recall of millions of handsets. And now, with replacement devices suffering the same explosive fate, the company has halted production. It doesn’t get much worse than this.
Update: Samsung has reached a “final decision” to stop all Note 7 production. It won’t be making any more, but that doesn’t make its problems go away.
